This database is an ongoing project indexing medieval names found in articles in the Medieval Names Archive and elsewhere. Any citations included here should be verified in the original sources. The pages generated by this database should NOT be used for documentation.

This project is still very much in the early stages. New data are being added on a regular basis, and I'm working on making the formatting look prettier (many thanks to Wenyeva atte grene for some help in that direction). Right now one known issue is that none of the accented characters are displaying correctly. I'm working on it.

Culture: Dutch

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
14thCDaenYDutchMale first names in the annual accounts of Deventer 1337-1393
14thCDanelDutchDutch Names 1393-96
14thCDanelDutchDutch Names 1358-1361
14thCDanielDutchDutch Names 1393-96
14thCDanielDutchDutch Names 1358-1361
14thCDanielLatinMale first names in the annual accounts of Deventer 1337-1393
14thCDanielDutch14th C Dutch Names from Destelbergen
15thCDaneelDutch15th Century Dutch Names
15thCDanelDutch15th Century Dutch Names
15thCDanneelDutch15th Century Dutch Names
16thCDanielDutchNames from Dutch Records Between 1584-1585
16thCDanielDutchNames from Dutch Records Between 1584-1585

Culture: English

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
16thCDanielEnglishNames in Chesham, 1538-1600/1
16thCDanielEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
16thCDanielEnglishLate Sixteenth Century English Given Names
16thCDaniellEnglishNames in Chesham, 1538-1600/1
16thCDaniellEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
16thCDaniellEnglishNames and Naming Practices in the Registers of the Church of St. Mary's, Dymock
16thCDanyellEnglishNames and Naming Practices in the Registers of the Church of St. Mary's, Dymock
16thCDanyellEnglishNames of Soldiers from Kent, 1595
17thCDanielEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
17thCDaniellEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
17thCDannYEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records

Culture: French

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
13thCDaniauFrenchNames in the 1292 census of Paris
13thCDanielFrenchNames in the 1292 census of Paris
13thCDanielFrenchMasculine Given Names in Morlet, Étude d'anthroponymie picarde
13thCDanyauFrenchNames in the 1292 census of Paris
13thCDanyelFrenchNames in the 1292 census of Paris
14thCDenicYFrenchGiven Names from Brittany, 1384-1600
14thCDenielFrenchGiven Names from Brittany, 1384-1600
15thCDanielFrenchFrench Names from Paris, 1421, 1423, & 1438
16thCDanielFrenchNames from Artois, 1601
16thCDanyelFrenchSixteenth Century Norman Names

Culture: German

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
13thCDanielLatinGerman Given Names 1200-1250
14thCDanielGermanMedieval German Given Names from Silesia
15thCDanielGermanGerman Names from 1495
15thCDanielGermanMedieval German Given Names from Silesia
16thCDanielGermanLate Period German Masculine Given Names

Culture: Italian

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
14thCDanieleItalianFourteenth Century Venetian Personal Names
14thCDanieliItalianFourteenth Century Venetian Personal Names
15thCDanielLatinNames from the Chronicon Spilimbergense
15thCDanieleItalianFifteenth Century Venetian Masculine Names
15thCDanielleItalianNames in 15th Century Florence and her Dominions: the Condado
15thCDanielloItalianNames in 15th Century Florence and her Dominions: the Condado

Culture: Scottish

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
16thCDanielScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue